Le'hi (Heb. Lechi', "^nb, in pause Le'chi, ^tfs, a cheek or jaw-bone [usually with the art. '^riSil]; Sept. Afyi V. r. Aivi), a place in the tribe of Judah where Samson achieved one of his single-handed victories over the Philistines(Judg.xv,9, 14, 19, in which last passages the Sept. translates (ndyioi',Yu\g. mnxillu). It contain- ed an eminence — Ramath-lehi, and a spring of great and lasting repute (see Oxilob, De font e tSiineonis,lA\iS.\lf)o) — En hak-kore (ver. 17). The name of the place before the confiict was evidently Lehi, as apjiears from verses 9 and 1 4 ; perhaps so called from the form of some hill or rock ((iesenius, Thesaur. p. 752). After the slaughter of the Philistines, Samson, with a characteristic play upon the name, makes it descriptive of his signal and singular victory. Lehi is possibly mentioned in 2 Sam. ^^i'i' |1 — the relation of another encounter with the Philistines hardly less disastrous than that of Samson. The Heb. there has t^^n5, as if n^n, from the root i"
(Gesenius, Thesaui: p. 470). In this sense the word very rarely occurs (see A. V. of Psa. Ixviii, 10, 30 ; Ixxiv, 19). It elsewhere has the sense of "living," and thence of wild animals, which is adopted by the Sept. in this place, as remarked above. In ver. 13 it is again ren- dered "troop." In the parallel narrative of 1 Chron. (xi, 15), the word nsn-i, a " camp," is substituted. In the passage 2 Sam., it is rendered in the A. Y. "into a troop," but by alteration of the vowel-points becomes " to Lehi," which gives a new and certainly an appro- priate sense. This reading first appears in Josephus (A nt. vii, 12, 4), who gives it " a place called Siagona" — the jaw — the word which he employs in the story of Samson {Ant. v, 8, 9). It is also given in the Complu- tensian Sept., and among modern interpreters by Bochart {Hieroz. i, 2, ch. xiii), Kennicott {Dissert, p. 140), J. D. aiichaelis {Bibelfur Um/elehrt.), Ewald {Geschichle, iii, 180, note). The great similarity between the two names in the original (Gesenius, Thesaur. p. 175 6), has led to the supposition that Beer-Lahai-roi was the same as Lehi. But the situations do not suit. The well La- hai-roi was below Kadesh, very far from the locality to which Samson's adventures seem to have been confined. Jerome states that Paula, when on her way from Beth- lehem to Egypt, passed from Sochoth to the fountain of Samson {Opera, i, 705, ed. Migne). Later writers lo- cate it beside Eleutheropolis (Anton. Mar. Itin. 30 ; Re- land, p. 872) ; but the tradition appears to have been vague and uncertain (Robinson, ii, C4 sq.). There is only a deep old well, which woidd not answer to the Scripture narrative (Robinson, ii, 2(5 sq.). — Smith ; Kit- to. Van de Yelde {Narrative, ii, 140, 141) proposes to identify Ramoth-Lehi with Ramoth Nekeb (1 Sam. xxx, 27), as well as with Baalath (1 Kings ix, 18 ; 2 Chron. viii, G), Baalath-bcer (Josh, xix, 8), or Bealoth (Josh. XV, 24) ; and all these with some ruins on tell Lekiyeh, three or four miles north of Bir es-Seba (comp. Memoir, p. 343), a view to which we yield an assent, reluctant- ly, however, owing to its great distance from the Phil- istine territor}', and the want of exact agreement in the Arabic name {Lechi and Le//ii/eh'). The Bcil-Liki- yeh, mentioned by Tobler {Dritie Wandermif/, p. 189) as a village on the northern slopes of the great wady Su- leiman, about two miles below tlie upper Beth-horon, is a position at once on the borders of both Judah and the Philistines, and within reasonable proximity to Zo- rah, Eshtaol, Timnath, and other places familiar to the history of the great Danite hero. But this, again, is too far north for any luiown position of the adjoining rock Etain (([. v.).
Lehmann, Christian Abraiiaji, a German theo- logian, was born at Tiitenbock Jan. 4, 1735, and was ed- ucated at the University of Wittenberg (1754-58). In 1760 he became deacon, in 1764 pastor at Lockwitz, and in 1806 senior of the district of the Dresden diocese. He died Dec. 30, 1813. He spent his life in practical ac- tivity. He was remarkably successful in an attempt to hold prayer-meetings, connected with Bible instruction, thus influencing and affecting the heart in a time when the great majority of the pulpits of Germany Avcre oc- cupied by rationalism. Of the few books he composed, we mention Kimzer Entwurf der Glaubenslehre f'lir er- warhsene Kinder, etc. (1772, 8vo ; new and enlarged edit., 1797, 8vo). — Doring, Gelehrte Theol. Deutschl. vol. ii, s. v.
Lehnberg, IMagnus, a Swedish prelate, noted as a pulpit orator, was born in 1758, and became bishop of Linkiiping. He died in 1809.
Lehuin, Herjiann vox, a monk of the convent of that name, said to have flourished about the close of the 13th centur}-, as the author of a prophetic poem, in 100 Latin hexameter verses, concerning his convent and the house of Brandenlaurg, entitled Vaticinium Lehnin- ense. According to the legend, the IMS^was discovered in an old wall, in the 17th century, by the elector, when the latter intended to build a palace on the ruins of the convent. The poem is written in the interest of the